My Rating: ✯✯✯✯✯
Genre: YA, GLBT, Contemporary
Publication Date: April 07th, 2015
This book is the 2015 Fangirl. Five out of five stars. Five out of Five everythings.
I don't read Contemporary that often but when I can be persuaded to do so thus far the feels have destroyed me and left me in a stunned mess. There has been just as much hype about this one as Fangirl when it came out and for good reason.
The top 5 things I love about this book include: the acknowledgement of the sacred status of Orio Cookies, a homosexual protagonist, abundant Harry Potter references, inclusive gender representation and a character that has my name.
Three hundred and twenty pages of comfort on a bad day, sarcastic melancholy, awkward romantic emails and social media blackmail set to a Rilo Kiley soundtrack. My honest hope for this book is that it lands itself with enough legitimacy and street cred in the literature world to be considered along side The Perks of Being a Wallflower for inclusion in school curriculum.
I'm not going to go into it too much because I think everyone needs to read this. Especially people that think they don't know anyone thats gay or anyone thats convinced themselves that they understand what being gay in high school or coming out would be like if they haven't lived it themselves. Parents and teachers need to read this, politicians and people with moral/religious opposition to homosexuality need to read this, people who think they understand what it means to be human need to read this.
If everyone you know has been telling you to read this just do it. Obtain a packet of Orios and lock yourself away for a few hours. You'll be glad you did.
This book is the 2015 Fangirl. Five out of five stars. Five out of Five everythings.
I don't read Contemporary that often but when I can be persuaded to do so thus far the feels have destroyed me and left me in a stunned mess. There has been just as much hype about this one as Fangirl when it came out and for good reason.
The top 5 things I love about this book include: the acknowledgement of the sacred status of Orio Cookies, a homosexual protagonist, abundant Harry Potter references, inclusive gender representation and a character that has my name.
Three hundred and twenty pages of comfort on a bad day, sarcastic melancholy, awkward romantic emails and social media blackmail set to a Rilo Kiley soundtrack. My honest hope for this book is that it lands itself with enough legitimacy and street cred in the literature world to be considered along side The Perks of Being a Wallflower for inclusion in school curriculum.
I'm not going to go into it too much because I think everyone needs to read this. Especially people that think they don't know anyone thats gay or anyone thats convinced themselves that they understand what being gay in high school or coming out would be like if they haven't lived it themselves. Parents and teachers need to read this, politicians and people with moral/religious opposition to homosexuality need to read this, people who think they understand what it means to be human need to read this.
If everyone you know has been telling you to read this just do it. Obtain a packet of Orios and lock yourself away for a few hours. You'll be glad you did.
I don't usually read YA Contemporary, but this title has been getting a lot of good reviews so I'm very interested. I also love HP and Oreo cookies so it helps ;)
ReplyDeleteGreat review!